Documents: Selected Dispatches
Cables obtained by WikiLeaks offer a huge sampling of the daily traffic between the State Department and 270 embassies and consulates worldwide.
A huge trove of State Department communiqués offer an extraordinary look at the inner workings, and sharp elbows, of diplomacy.
Diplomatic cables show how two presidents have dealt with Iran and how President Obama built support for a harsher package of sanctions.
American intelligence assessments say that Iran has obtained Russian-designed missiles that are much more powerful than other weapons in its arsenal.
State Department personnel were told to gather the credit card and frequent-flier numbers, schedules and other personal data of foreign officials.
Cables obtained by WikiLeaks offer a huge sampling of the daily traffic between the State Department and 270 embassies and consulates worldwide.
Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, explains the decision to publish articles based on thousands of United States embassy cables.
State Department cables show the painstaking efforts by the United States to reduce the population of the Guantánamo prison so it can eventually close.
The cables on North Korea are long on guesses and short on facts, even when containing the thoughts of diplomats from China, the North’s ally.
Diplomatic cables highlight the differences between Washington and Pakistan over the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and Washington’s relations with India.
The United States opposed Pakistan’s releasing the nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan from house arrest, diplomatic cables show.
Blackwater tried to find business offering protection from Somali pirates and sought the aid of the American Embassy in Djibouti, a 2009 cable said.
Leaked cables offer a nuanced assessment of the French leader as a friend of America and an erratic figure with authoritarian tendencies.
Cables show that the United States harbors a dim view of the Russian leaders and little hope that Russia will become more democratic or reliable.
American diplomats in Georgia often set aside skepticism and embraced Georgian versions of disputed events, like the 2008 conflict with Russia.
Leaked cables suggest that American diplomats think Canadians “carry a chip on their shoulder” and feel overshadowed by the United States.
Corruption in Afghanistan, leaked cables say, is pervasive and dispiriting for American officials trying to build support for the Afghan government.
Diplomatic reports show the trajectory of the Afghan president from a leader anointed by the West to an embattled one who baffles his allies.
Officials disagree about missiles Iran is said to have obtained from North Korea, and scant evidence exists that they are close to being deployed.
Diplomatic cables offer an intimate view of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni leader, who has become steadily more aggresive against Al Qaeda.
A deal to have a stockpile of spent nuclear fuel removed from Libya and buried in Russia was briefly delayed by a diplomatic dispute, cables show.
The documents released by WikiLeaks capture a moment when Mexican officials were forced to acknowledge that their military strategy was not producing the results in the drug war.
China has engaged in attacks aimed at American military and political data, and its leaders have been obsessed with Google’s role in China, cables say.
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